Move Beyond Chain-of-Thought with Chain-of-Draft on Amazon Bedrock
Original URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/move-beyond-chain-of-thought-with-chain-of-draft-on-amazon-bedrock/
Article Written: December 22, 2025
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Type: tech2
Summary
The article discusses the Chain-of-Draft (CoD) prompting technique, which offers a more efficient alternative to the traditional Chain-of-Thought (CoT) method for large language models. CoD reduces verbosity and improves cost efficiency and response times by limiting reasoning steps to five words or less. The authors demonstrate the implementation of CoD using Amazon Bedrock and AWS Lambda, showcasing significant reductions in token usage and latency while maintaining accuracy. The article emphasizes the practical benefits of CoD for organizations scaling their generative AI implementations.